WM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 381.

AN ACT for the relief of the State Librarian.

WHEREAS in consequence of the expenditures

of the predecessor of the present State Librarian,

the contingent fund of the library for the pay-

ment of postage, porterage, freight and other in-

cidental expenses appropriated at the last session

of the General Assembly of Maryland has become

exhausted, and there yet remains seven months

of the present fiscal year for which provision will

have to be made; and whereas the former libra-

Preamble

rian, who preceded the present incumbent of the

office, incurred the following indebtedness which

still remains unpaid, viz.: To Joseph S. M. Basil

for ice, eight dollars and ten cents ($8.10); to the

Annapolis Post Office, three dollars and thirty-

two cents ($3.32) for postage; to John H. Jones

for services as porter, fourteen dollars and forty

cents ($14.40); and to Jacob H. Medairy'and Com-

pany for stationery, seventy-five dollars ($75);

now therefore to provide for such deficiency in the

said contingent fund and to pay and discharge the

aforesaid indebtedness —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That four hundred dollars, or so

much thereof as may be necessary, be and the

same are hereby appropriated for the contingent

fund of the library, including postage, porterage,

freight and other incidental expenses, for the

seven months from the first day of March to the

first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-

Appropriation:

two; and to pay the claims of Joseph S. M. Basil

for eight dollars and ten cents; the Annapolis Post

Office for three dollars and thirty- two cents; John

H. Jones for fourteen dollars and forty cents;

and Jacob H. Medairy and Company for seventy-

five dollars against the State Library.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of

the State shall, on the warrant of the Comptrol-

Who to dis-

ler, disburse said sum of four hundred dollars, or

burse.

so much thereof as may be necessary, herein ap-

propriated for the objects and purposes herein